Exclude node_modules from Backblaze Backups on Windows

There are some articles out there about how to exclude node_modules from Backblaze backups on OSX but I couldn’t find anything about windows.

What you want to do is open up C:\ProgramData\Backblaze\bzdata\bzexcluderules_editable.xml and add a new rule.

<excludefname_rule plat="win" osVers="*"  ruleIsOptional="t" skipFirstCharThenStartsWith="*" contains_1="node_modules" contains_2="*" doesNotContain="*" endsWith="*" hasFileExtension="*" />

If you want to exclude .git folders too (they can also contain a lot of small files that are slow to backup) also add

<excludefname_rule plat="win" osVers="*"  ruleIsOptional="t" skipFirstCharThenStartsWith="*" contains_1=".git" contains_2="*" doesNotContain="*" endsWith="*" hasFileExtension="*" />